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Watch out for Netcompressor!

A new sort of harmful code aimed for Symbian devices has been discovered. If you install it, your phone will start to send Premium SMS's.

The harmful code is a kind of Trojan, which means that it will appear to be a normal application with a certain function, but in fact it has instead a totally unwanted feature. Instead of being a real application your phone will start to send Premium SMS's to Russian receivers. The Trojan has been spreading under the name Netcompressor on some file sharing pages for mobile phones.

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Viver will attack mobile phones with Symbian Series 60 2nd Edition. This means that Nokias new smartphones can not be infected by this application. If you have a Nokia 6630, 6680, N70, N70 etc. you might have to? watch out!

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